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by dedward 15y ago
I'm probably thinking of something different - but wasn't it clear in the bitcoin protocol itself that if a single actor controlled a majority percentage of the bitcoins out there, the model falls apart and is at risk?
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by dedward 15y ago
You say you don't mind 300ms in exchange for control over what your browser does. Wearing my technology and privacy conscious security USER hat, I agree completely. As a webmaster for a site where retention and "stickiness" are critical, I
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by dedward 15y ago
I would think the security concerns would be front and foremost. When I hit up google for a list of sites, I want a list of sites. Whether my browser visits them or not is up to me - I don't want it happening automatically. Now, personall
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by dedward 15y ago
In general, yes - especially if those sites are not immediately revenue generating. The kind of infrastructure you need to defend against humungous DDOS attacks does not come cheaply, whether bought or outsourced.
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by dedward 15y ago
Simply a combination of it's nature - it's C++, and It's been around a long time. It's easy to make messy stuff with it.
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by dedward 15y ago
First sun workstation I ever physically used (I'd used remote servers over terminal sessions for years). Got a new job, and they plunked an IPX down in front of me with a 20" sun monitor. "will that do?" (I knew nothing about the IPX - I di
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by dedward 15y ago
Wow - I used to use one of those. An I have another sun pizzabox (and the metal grid mousepad and the red laser mouse, and the full sun keyboard!) kicking around in storage somewhere..... sun4. (Lower model than the SS20 in the box) I thi
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by dedward 15y ago
Don't do your self the disservice of self-signed - you can get a free cert from startssl. The CA landscape has changed.... what used to be expensive and required a lot of paperwork is getting cheap/free, and CAs are pushing "Extended valida
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by dedward 15y ago
That would very much depend on the situation and the people involved of course. Someone with a deep and practical (practical being the important part here) knowledge of chemistry at the right place and right time? Could be extremely usefu
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by dedward 15y ago
spring OR gravity-assisted knives. Yup. That's a silly law. Really, really silly.
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by dedward 15y ago
I may have missed something - My one curiosity would be if his decision to not fold, but just straight mash the bits of steel together was not skipping a crucial step - folding to ensuring uniformity. Would that not make the sword have wea
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by dedward 15y ago
"number of sites" isn't a metric you can design against - you know nothing about the app requirements. "number of static sites" is marginally better - the "number of sites" in that case is meaningless - the limiting factor will be the reque
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by dedward 15y ago
While none of us can predict the future - I think it would be silly at this point to think of BTC as anything but a fairly high-risk investment right now. Assuming you can live off this for years and not work is a very dangerous assumption.
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by dedward 15y ago
Right - but GPS is never supposed to be relied upon for anything - it's secondary. If there's no ILS and zero visibility - you should be landing somewhere else, no?
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by dedward 15y ago
Not just kind of - more like "absolutely" mapping and reducing are directly from the functional paradigm.
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by dedward 15y ago
It's not flawed,it's just to narrow in scope. Deflation, when things are worth less over time, means producers have to sell MORE to make payroll, pay their bills, pay their debts - which haven't changed in value. It's great for people flush
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by dedward 15y ago
#1) This happens historically with many curencies. Making things more attractive to early adopters (but nto TOO attractive) gives this momontum to take off. #2) Deflation is bad with real currencies because real currencies are tied to real
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by dedward 15y ago
Umm.. what? Bayer holds the trademark for Aspirin (Capital A) in Canada (and others). The trademark is void in the US (and others) When Canadians that I know (incluidng me) say "aspirin" we mean very deliberately "Any kind of ASA - and if i
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by dedward 15y ago
Batteries have seen continuous improvement for ages.
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by dedward 15y ago
That's funny - my Core 2 Duo MBP played it smooth as butter. And you don't get to claim extra cores because of hyperthreading - it's just not the same thing at all.
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by dedward 15y ago
I'm quite puzzled there too. In what sense is using a hash as part of the address a hashbang? Hashbang refrers to #!, #!, and only #!.
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by dedward 15y ago
It's important to realize these predictions were not all separate things - where he just said "Oh hey, what about X?" He developed mathematical models for currently available observations. Those models in turn also suggested other phenomen
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by dedward 15y ago
I don't think OSX is specifically that important - I've met plenty of "new" linux users who have no idea htese tools exist either - linux has a gui too, you know. Converseley, there are plenty of long-term unix experts out there who also fi
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by dedward 15y ago
If it were notices sent to registrars, yes (talking .com, for instance). A US based registrar is bound by US law. A UK based registrar is not. In these cases they are going after the registry itself (Verisign) which is completely under US
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by dedward 15y ago
Privacy policy or not - if it's purpose is to be a video downloader, but it tracks stuff when you are doing something other than video downloading - it's sneaky at best, however it's presented.
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by dedward 15y ago
THe original decentralized design of the bittorrent protocol was to stop bandwidth bottlenecks only - to let the cloud of people downloading it all also immediately start contributing to uploading to others, so the more people that start to
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by dedward 15y ago
If it's my credit card information then all the merchants who end up passing my card fraudulently are the victims, because they are the ones who won't get paid. I won't have to pay a dime for transactions I didn't authorize. I suppose I cou
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by dedward 15y ago
More likely, and worrying, is that it could happen by accident. Hashing is not the same as compression - we should all know that by now. Pigeonhole principle and all that. In a 256 bit hash, there are 2^256 possible hash values. There are
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by dedward 15y ago
Just seconding - being a landlord can REALLY suck, and is full of hidden obstacles. You need to be committed to it, get proper legal advice and do everything by the book. In principle (though I don't know specific state laws in the US) -
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by dedward 15y ago
Just curious (because I've never honestly looked) - can you really lock in a rate for the entire, say, 25 year length of the mortgage? When I asked a mortgage broker friend (Canadian) about this not too long ago, it was explained to me that

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